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Fix Transport Client Sniffing

July 6, 2023
You are a commit message generator for the Java project. I will give you a code change from the Java repository and you tell me its commit message. The output format is one sentence. The code change is ```diff diff --git a/docs/java-api/client.asciidoc b/docs/java-api/client.asciidoc index 65b160523762b..dc8558a85f652 100644 --- a/docs/java-api/client.asciidoc +++ b/docs/java-api/client.asciidoc @@ -59,18 +59,18 @@ TransportClient client = new PreBuiltTransportClient(settings); The Transport client comes with a cluster sniffing feature which allows it to dynamically add new hosts and remove old ones. -When sniffing is enabled the the transport client will connect to the nodes in its -internal node list, which is built via calls to addTransportAddress. +When sniffing is enabled, the transport client will connect to the nodes in its +internal node list, which is built via calls to `addTransportAddress`. After this, the client will call the internal cluster state API on those nodes to discover available data nodes. The internal node list of the client will be replaced with those data nodes only. This list is refreshed every five seconds by default. Note that the IP addresses the sniffer connects to are the ones declared as the 'publish' address in those node's elasticsearch config. -Keep in mind that list might possibly not include the original node it connected to +Keep in mind that the list might possibly not include the original node it connected to if that node is not a data node. If, for instance, you initially connect to a -master node, after sniffing no further requests will go to that master node, -but rather to any data nodes instead. The reason the transport excludes non-data +master node, after sniffing, no further requests will go to that master node, +but rather to any data nodes instead. The reason the transport client excludes non-data nodes is to avoid sending search traffic to master only nodes. In order to enable sniffing, set `client.transport.sniff` to `true`: ```
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Fix transport client sniffing behavior and improve documentation.